| Venue: Princes Park | Date: Saturday April 22, 1961 | ||||||||||||||||||
Result: Win by 5 points | Umpire: Hodgson | Crowd: 29,384 | ||||||||||||||||||
Goalkickers: J.Heathcote 3, T.Carroll 2, G.Collis 1, M.Cross 1, G.Donaldson 1, C.Pavlou 1. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Reports: G.Donaldson reported by umpire Hodgson for striking K.Wright - accquited | Injuries: L.Bereton (shoulder) early first quarter. |
Game Review
The overconfident Blues were lucky to escape with this narrow victory, after easing up in the last term and allowing Fitzroy to rattle home. In fact, the Maroons should have won, but their shakiness in front of goal brought them undone - they booted 1.7 to Carlton's 1.1 and lost by 5 points.After the first two rounds of 1961, the top four teams were Footscray, Geelong, Carlton and South Melbourne, with the first three all undefeated.
Team
B: | 15 Bruce Comben | 25 George Ferry | 2 John Nicholls (vc) |
HB: | 32 Vasil Varlamos | 14 Bob Crowe | 10 John James (dvc) |
C: | 21 Bill Arch | 9 Berkley Cox | 35 Chris Pavlou |
HF: | 19 Ian Collins | 18 Peter Barry | 17 Gordon Collis |
F: | 16 Maurie Sankey | 22 Tom Carroll | 23 Martin Cross |
Ruck: | 13 Graham Donaldson (c) | 1 Serge Silvagni | 6 Leo Brereton |
Res: | 3 Dave McCulloch | 37 John Heathcote | |
Coach: | Ken Hands |
In: G. Donaldson, G. Collis, V. Varlamos
Out: D. Nicholls, J. Williams, W. Lofts
![Image](img/wiki_up/1961 Ian Collins and Alan Gale Age Aril 24Capture.jpg)
Milestones
Debut: Gordon CollisRound 1 | Round 3